Mojo's Scores
- Music
For 10,507 reviews, this publication has graded:
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53% higher than the average critic
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5% same as the average critic
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42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.5 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Average Music review score: 72
| Highest review score: | Hundred Dollar Valentine | |
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| Lowest review score: | Milk Cow Blues |
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Positive: 6,861 out of 10507
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Mixed: 3,612 out of 10507
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Negative: 34 out of 10507
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Anyone craving Smith/Kramer’s piledriving interlocked guitars, or Tyner’s ramalama stoner poetry, will not find them on Heavy Lifting. Get past the branding issue, however, and there’s a great deal to love about this full-blooded, riotous and often deliciously funky record. [Nov 2024, p.82]- Mojo
- Posted Oct 16, 2024
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Broadly, his remains the church of raucous or jangling indie-guitar with quirks (unexpected strings at the end of I Couldn't See The Light; clunking smartphone recording The Well Known Soldier), but Universe Room rewards the patient. [Mar 2025, p.92]- Mojo
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Their ninth studio album is simultaneously more cosmic and conceptual than earlier efforts. [Jun 2017, p.89]- Mojo
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There's no great leap forward here but the spring in their step is unmistakeable. [Sep 2013, p.87]- Mojo
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Rather than a showcase for their collaborators, however, MOM take the greatest of liberties with these sound sources, fragmenting and processing them into unrecognizable forms, and even occasionally playing them straight. [May 2018, p.- Mojo
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Its mood affecting. its melodies haunting, Fading Parade is spellbinding. [Apr 2011, p.101]- Mojo
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Hypnotic, doomy, edgy, but strangely forgettable, too. [Apr 2012, p.84]- Mojo
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The Final Frontier, its scratchy, clattering intro resembling The Mars Volta and signifying that this national institution's quest for adventure remains unabated. [Sept. 2010, p.98]- Mojo
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While quite meaty in itself, this is odd and not necessarily called for. [Jul 2013, p.88]- Mojo
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It's charming, understated and has to be heard in context. [Oct 2007, p.100]- Mojo
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The resulting record is one that softens with repeated listens, even if it's so full of bad juju you may initially feel compelled to burn it at the stake. [Jul 29011, p.112]- Mojo
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Mr. Love and Justice unvels a warmer, less blustry, more soulful Bragg. [Apr 2008, p.102]- Mojo
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Downtempo it may be, but joyous rather than dark. [Apr 2012, p.91]- Mojo
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Sometimes Duffy tries just that little too hard to capture the sound of soul music's glorious past. [Apr 2008, p.102]- Mojo
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Remarkably compelling to anyone with slightly more outre tastes. [Aug 2005, p.102]- Mojo
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It's a beauty, intimate songs and poetic lyrics, overdubbed with the Seattle-based Texan's own harmonies. [Jun 2012, p.93]- Mojo
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"This is a song for anyone with a broken heart," Fink sings on 'Blue Skies' and the break-up album of the year is complete. [Sep 2009, p.98]- Mojo
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With its stark arrangements, glimpses of social disintegration, and thirtysomething neuroses (see I Need A Mother), it really is close to a masterpiece. [Feb 2010, p. 94]- Mojo
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Girl Ray's metamorphosis is still ongoing, and that their true final form may resemble something darker and more substantial than Girl's neon reveries, diverting though they are. [Dec 2019, p.94]- Mojo
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Praxis achieves the tricky balancing act between playful and poignant. [May 2013, p.90]- Mojo
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The quartet's grandeur evokes Maiden and Priest with a hint of Thin Lizzy, yet they avoid European power metal's widdly overkill. [May 2008, p.109]- Mojo
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Forth is a good, but not great Verve album, then, its glimmers of brillance all too brief. [Sep 2008, p.98]- Mojo
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Characterised by both an ill-advised flirtation with cutting-edge electronics and an overabundance of rather washed-out reggae. [Jun 2003, p.98]- Mojo
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Songs terrific, band sensational, and -- big plus -- Costello's voice late-developing way beyond that pinched whine into an instrument of substance and character. [Oct 2004, p.97]- Mojo
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The ensuing synthetic pop suite can't disguise a crucial lack of memorable songs. [Mar 2009, p.111]- Mojo
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Communion clearly packs a unique set of quirks, diversions and comedowns. [Sep 2009, p.102]- Mojo
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Posted Jun 26, 2012